Improved skate



rtree@ PATENT J. R. TEMPESI, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IM PROVED SKATE.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,624, dated February13, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J. 1t. TEMPEST, of the city ot' Philadelphia, in theState of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inFastenings for Skates; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference bcing had to the accompanying drawings, making apartof this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinalsection on the dotted line w m of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan view of thefootgside of the same; and Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on thedotted line y z of Fig. 2, like letters of reference indicating t-hesame parts when in the different figures. The nature of my inventionconsists, substantially as hereinafter described and specilied, in theemployment of transversely-sliding bolts between the heel and sole of aboot or shoe and metallic pla-tes slotted and fixed to the said heel andsole, respectively, so as to receive through them suitable staples Xedin the sole-plate of the skate in such a manner that the said slidingbolts can be readily inserted so as to hold the skate tightly on thebottom of the boot or shoe and be readily withdrawn to release it, asoccasion may require, thus dispensing with all the straps heretoforerequired over the foot, and increasing the facilities for eitherattaching or detaching the skate.

In the drawings, A is the sole-plate of the skate 5 B B', the slottedplates 5 C C', the sliding bolts; D D', the staples for the bolts, and EE' extra soles or packing fixed to the plates B B',so as to come betweenthem and the sole and heel of a boot or shoe, the latter being indicatedin the drawings by the faint lines in Figs. l and 3.

Projecting from the upper side of the soleplate A,'two staples, D D, arefixed near the heel end, and two, D' D', near the toe end.

The plates B B' are made to correspond, re. Spectively, with the heeland the forward part 0f the sole of the boot or shoe, is about asixteenth of an inch thick, and slotted so as to admit through them theprojecting portions ofthe staples D D and D D', and allow the bolts C C'to be afterward pushed into them, (see Fig. 2,) so as to bind the saidplates and the soleplate A of the skate tightly together. The plates BB' are intended to be permanently fastened by means of .screws b2 b2 tothe heel and sole, respectively, of the boot or shoe 5 and in order toafford sufficient room for the tops of the staples D D' without cuttinginto the sole or heel of the boot or shoe, thin eXP tra soles ofleather, cork, or other poor conductor of heat, E E', are attached oneach side of the slots of the plates, so that they shall come betweenthe said plates B B' and the bottom of the boot or shoe when the formerare attached to the latter. (See Figs. l and 3.)

The bolts G C' are simply at pieces of iron or steel bent up at one endfor handling, and made of proper width to lit the staples and ofsufficient thickness and taper to force the sole-plate A tightly againstthe plates B B when the said bolts are pushed firmly into place, as seenin the drawings.

A spring, c2, or a set-screw, may be attached to each of the bolts tokeep them from workin g out in use, if required. This is a very simple,cheap, and reliable fastening for skates, and enables the skater toeither attach or detach the skates with the greatest facility'and ease;and, moreover, it not only dispenses altogether with straps which checkthe circulation of the blood in the feet, but the intervening pack` Ying, E, serves to retard the passage of heat from the foot to the skate.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The employment of the sliding bolts C C', in combination with thestaples D D D' D' in the sole-plate A of the skate, and with the slottedplates B B', fixed to the bottom of a boot or shoe, the said parts beingarranged to operate together as and for the purposes described.

J. R. TEMPEST. Witnesses:

BENJ. MoRIsoN, J As. WINsMoRE, Jr.

